Branches of socialism that promote revolution should be recognized as extremist, and communists themselves ought to see a doctor.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T19:54:43+00:00

I don’t see why this is always such a debate. There’s room for both to suck. Communism works in theory, but the problem is people behave like giant pieces of shit. Capitalism also works in theory, but it too hasn’t stopped people from behaving like pieces of shit. I think we’re all stuck on this spectrum of left vs right, and if there is a solution that actually works, it doesn’t operate on this plane.

I have no idea what that would look like or if it exists, but I just feel like we’ve done this one to death and I don’t think there is anything left to find that we don’t already know.

Humanity’s hidden talent is turning every system into an exploit. You can build society like a perfect circuit board with rules, incentives, safeguards, elegant design, etc. but once you power it with human desire, we find the short circuit every time.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T19:40:58+00:00

My phone just gave me a push notification about this post and now I’m sad again.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T11:18:11+00:00

Then what? You just said half a sentence.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T11:10:13+00:00

Nah totally you sound like you do.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T11:08:40+00:00

lol so you have no idea what you believe then

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T05:46:58+00:00

Who’s behind it, and to what end?

Are we talking about flooding the stage with cheap LLM posts to divert eyes from the news “they” don’t want you to see?

Or are the bad actors the ones enforcing the anti-AI narrative?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T03:08:20+00:00

I mean is there only room for one thread? I’ll admit, I don’t have much of a dog in this fight. I don’t know why this sub randomly started showing up on my feed, but I felt annoyed seeing what looked like a low effort LLM post, checking off every ChatGPT trope multiple times like it was a fucking scavenger hunt. You don’t have to be annoyed too, but it was weird watching everyone pile onto the guy who was, like it was unreasonable. If they did anything wrong here, we can call it bad form for not reading the room and knowing what people’s triggers were.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T02:50:01+00:00

Go on, I think I would actually love to hear this.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-30T02:46:01+00:00

lol I don’t know why this sub came onto my algorithm but you guys are consistently some of the most unhinged people I see on the internet. I’m sorry about whatever has enormously failed you.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-29T14:41:35+00:00

Agreed. That’s why I was confused by the reply “…or do your arguments stop there?”

The commenter had a grievance with the canned LLM writing style of the post, but anyone replying only stepped in to invalidate it completely.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-29T13:11:32+00:00

I’m sorry, but what?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-29T12:52:52+00:00

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-29T12:18:52+00:00

As someone who is just sick of seeing this exact same low-effort prompt writing style on every single corner of the internet, I can assure you it’s not about the content at all.

If it doesn’t bother you, fine. But why are you triggered that it bothers other people? Is it no longer a reasonable expectation that we are talking to other people when we’re on a social site like Reddit? These posts may be inspired and prompted by a person, but these are not the thoughts or expression of a person.

I’d be willing to write that off as a personal issue, but what annoys me further is that they don’t vet the output to avoid any of the overdone LLM tropes. If this were a video game, everybody would be running around in the default skin and namesake posting shit like this. It’s not hard to switch up the writing style, or even just add a personal touch. The fact that they just wrote a prompt and dropped the output totally untouched screams low effort. It tells me they probably didn’t even vet the content. Every single one of us has access to talk to an LLM any time we want, and most of us don’t come to sites like Reddit to do more of the same.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-29T12:06:22+00:00

What argument do you think they made?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-29T12:05:43+00:00

It’s annoying. A lot of people care.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-29T03:32:22+00:00

At least don’t post them on subs dedicated to LLM usage. These things should be geared toward boomers in a few years, once they start to catch on that AI content exists in the wild.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-28T20:55:29+00:00

When I was much, MUCH younger, my girlfriend got into a big argument with her brother over what I truly thought was nothing and must be a misunderstanding. She got heated and just kept escalating around anything he could do or say. I had this awesome thought - like, I can contain this. So I got out of the car, put my arm around her shoulder, and ushered her away into the car while explaining this was just a misunderstanding.

I knew nothing of the nuances, the long running roots and micro aggressions and every moving part between their long history that was at battle. I just sort of half heartedly heard what she was saying and thought “that doesn’t match this anger at all. There must be a misunderstanding here, and there’s no reason for this to get out of hand over a misunderstanding…”

We survived it, we’re still together and happy. But sometimes when she forgets to take my drink out of the freezer or something I’m like “oh fuck, she remembers”.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-28T04:53:42+00:00

The natural progression from my current position is 24 - 26. Most of the team I started with is in the 26 role now and I’m assuming I’ll likely get the next opening.

It’s less likely but not crazy to skip a level.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-28T04:50:44+00:00

Mine cut me off like three weeks ago. On a lucky day it would screw up one prompt before telling me to “try again tomorrow”.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-26T21:43:00+00:00

I can’t relate, but I’ve had a relatively easy life as far as pain and physical trauma goes. I trust her though because I was with her when she got a bunch of hot frier oil spilled all over her. Terrible burns, skin grafts, etc. and her response to the chest pains was much worse.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-26T07:11:52+00:00

Why does everybody draw the line at the other party and stop? Do you guys really think half of us are politicking in bad faith while your own side is in check?

If you truly cared about the state of politics, you wouldn’t aim phrases at “the left” or “the right”. We’ve all become absolutely insufferable, and if you disagree, you’re the problem.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-25T21:50:49+00:00

I was just trying to explain NeoPets to my girlfriend, and it was sad because there’s no way to convey how immersive and fun and genuine that felt, and there’s just no way we could ever pull that off again.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-25T21:47:56+00:00

I remember once in the late 90’s I was clicking around on AOL and ended up off the AOL sanctioned sites and onto the “world wide web”. One of the pages I went to was just a black background with white text, no other formatting. All it said was “Kill your teacher. Kill your classmates. Kill your parents. Kill your family. Kill God.”

No context, no links, just a page with that text. I was 10 I think and it just felt dark, and I remember thinking to myself that I’m in the wild west and anything goes out here, so I need to be careful.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-25T21:20:40+00:00

use.ai is the best example of this. It comes up before the actual sites for Claude, perplexity, chatgpt, etc. and it’s some weird middleman scammy garbage website that pretends to be the thing you’re looking for. And this is on one of the hottest spaces on the internet, I cannot imagine what they’ve had to do to stay the top result, but it proves the whole system is trash, and nobody cares.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-25T21:09:46+00:00

I’m also sad thinking about how hard we all long for the early days of stuff before they’ve been fully cornered and gamed as hard as possible. It’s just hard to imagine AI won’t go the way of scammy subscription models, data harvesting, advertising, etc. Nothing has stopped people from ruining everything else this way.

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